List of Food Substitutes vs Nutrients Balance: Which one is the future of designing diets in 21st century?

One of the first lines in controlling diseases and malnutrition is diet therapy and currently, due to tool limitations, for designing the patients’ diet plan, the food groups and the list of food substitutes are being used while suitable databases of foods composition are available. Methods of designing individuals’ diet and total of 8791 foods are reviewed to calculate the nutrients of mixed foods and design a suitable method of diet therapy with more freedom for the patients in the future. Food groups because of their simplicity are suitable for public health educations but have limitations that could be better covered using nutrient balances. The main cause of developing the list of food substitutes was the limitations in calculating nutrients in a designed diet that currently could be run using applications. Patients also by using self-management nutrition applications that based on the nutrient balancing method shown they are ready to accept this method. A well-designed application can make using nutrient balancing method which is the future of diets possible. However, the main limitation is still the needs for a big, validated, and accurate foods composition database that needs to be developed. Keywords : Diet, Food Groups, Nutrients, Diet therapy, Nutrition

PENGELOMPOKAN SAYURAN BERDASARKAN KEMIRIPAN KANDUNGAN GIZI

One of the either of health maintain is trough the food consumption pattern that fulfill nutrient content. Vegetables are needed to body as source of vitamin, mineral and fiber in gaining healthy food pattern as a recommended guidance of nutrient balancing for optimal health. This research is aimed to determine several type of vegetables that have similarity of nutrient content and types of nutrient content which characterized of each vegetables grup. The method is biplot analysis. Biplot analysis can show the type of vegetables and type of nutrient content simultaneously in a two-dimensional plot. From this plot, the information about vegetables that have similarity of nutrient content and type of nutrient content which characterized of each vegetables group. This research used 37 type of vegetable as an observation object and type of nutrient content observed is 13. The result of this analysis is obtained 7 vegetables group with different characteristic changes.